NET-HAPPENINGS Digest - 27 Apr 2000 to 28 Apr 2000 - Special issue (#2000-235)
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Topics in this special issue:
1. MISC> [DUC] ARTICLE: Clearest Picture of Infant Universe Sees It All and
Questions It, Too
2. K12> Notices Inviting Applications (April 27, 2000)
3. RESOUR> [netsites] Everything E-mail
4. MISC> [DUC] INFO: PKzip creator Phil Katz dead at 37
5. MISC> [netsites] World Wide Learn
6. RESOUR> [netsites] U.S. Department of Education (ED) Home Page
7. MISC> [netsites] Lives, the Biography Resource
8. K12> [netsites] KidSource OnLine
9. MISC> [netsites] The Cyberlaw Informer
10. RESOUR> Library of Congress Gets Hip
11. MISC> Web User Training Needs Assessment Tool Available at No Cost
12. RESOUR> [netsites] The Nine Planets
13. MISC> [netsites] Cookie Central
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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 07:48:13 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: MISC> [DUC] ARTICLE: Clearest Picture of Infant Universe Sees It All
and Questions It, Too
From: "Karen Ellis" <guava...@earthlink.net>
To: "DUC" <d...@egroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 1:46 PM
Subject: [DUC] ARTICLE: Clearest Picture of Infant Universe Sees It All and
Questions It, Too
Clearest Picture of Infant Universe Sees It All and Questions It, Too
<http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/042700sci-universe-structur
e.html>
If you click on this URL today you can call up a whole bunch of earlier
articles on the universe and related matters. Tomorrow may be too late.
New York Times
April 27, 2000
Clearest Picture of Infant Universe Sees It All and Questions It, Too
Related Articles
The Nature of the Universe
By JAMES GLANZ
Scientists yesterday released the clearest pictures yet taken of the
infant universe, before stars and galaxies had formed and when space
was filled with hot turbulent gases. The images confirm one major
prediction of the leading theory of the explosive birth of the
universe, but they failed to reveal another crucial feature that
scientists had hoped would buttress that theory.
It is uncertain how sharp a revision, if any, will be needed to
account for the new evidence.
The images -- actually imprints of sound waves that cause ripples in
the cosmos' temperature -- were collected using a balloon-borne
telescope named Boomerang by a multinational collaboration led by Dr.
Andrew Lange of the California Institute of Technology and Dr. Paolo
de Bernardis of the University of Rome. The images, released at a NASA
briefing yesterday, are being published today in the journal Nature.
"They're essentially snapshots of the universe when it was 300,000
years old," said Dr. Wayne Hu, a cosmologist at the Institute for
Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., who wrote a separate commentary on
the results in Nature.
To the untrained eye, the images in question resemble little more than
ill-defined blotches. And in fact, the very notion of measuring
ripples from the Big Bang or determining whether space is curved or
flat is likely to baffle most lay people. But for cosmologists, the
measurements provide an unparalleled opportunity to test their
theories, which are built largely upon abstract mathematical models,
against something they can actually detect in the real world.
In trying to understand how the universe came about in what they
believe was a giant explosion, called the Big Bang, some 13 billion
years ago, scientists focus on ripples, or variations, in the
temperature of the primordial gas. These can be used as a measuring
stick to gauge the large-scale geometry and overall contents of the
universe.
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<http://www.edu-cyberpg.com>
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USA Today Hot Site & MSNBC.com Hot Site Pick Award
USA Today Best Bets For Educators Award
Philadelphia Inquirer http://education.philly.com/
The crisp and clean playground walks technophobic
teachers and parents through crystal-clear instructions.
Provides teachers, parents, librarians, home
schoolers and regular folks a "webliography" with
over 6000 links to pertinent topics and subtopics.
Cool choice of site maps to browse from.
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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 07:48:23 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: K12> Notices Inviting Applications (April 27, 2000)
From: owner-...@inet.ed.gov [mailto:owner-...@inet.ed.gov]On Behalf Of
Kickbush, Peter
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 2:53 PM
To: Information from & about the U.S. Department of Education publications &
more .
Subject: Notices Inviting Applications (April 27, 2000)
RECENT "NOTICES INVITING APPLICATIONS" (grant opportunities)
from the U.S. Department of Education (published in the
Federal Register) include those related to:
* The Comprehensive School Reform Research Grant
Competition -- CFDA# 84.306S
* Indian Education Formula Grants to Local Educational
Agencies -- CFDA# 84.060A
* Gaining Early Awareness & Readiness for Undergraduate
Programs -- CFDA# 84.334
These & other notices can be found at:
http://www.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/announcements/
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION about Department funding
opportunities, including discretionary grant application
packages, please see:
http://www.ed.gov/funding.html
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message to: list...@inet.ed.gov Then write either SUBSCRIBE
EDINFO YOURFIRSTNAME YOURLASTNAME in the message, or write
UNSUBSCRIBE EDINFO (if you have a signature block, please turn
it off) Then send it!
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Search: http://www.ed.gov/MailingLists/EDInfo/search.html
Past ED Initiatives: http://www.ed.gov/pubs/EDInitiatives/
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Peter Kickbush
U.S. Department of Education
peter_k...@ed.gov
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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 07:48:31 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: RESOUR> [netsites] Everything E-mail
From: "Alan S. Harrell" <ASHa...@MASTNET.net>
To: <nets...@egroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 8:45 PM
Subject: [netsites] Everything E-mail
Everything E-mail - teaching readers that e-mail is much more than
sending a message.
Comprehensive site to help you in all things e-mail; and make your
e-mail account more productive and fun. Tips, glossary, help with
subscribing and starting mailing lists, e-mail software information,
services, glossary...and much more...everything...e-mail.
E-mail Rules!
Alan
ASHa...@MASTNET.net
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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 07:48:37 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: MISC> [DUC] INFO: PKzip creator Phil Katz dead at 37
From: "Karen Ellis" <guava...@earthlink.net>
To: "DUC" <d...@egroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 9:06 AM
Subject: [DUC] INFO: PKzip creator Phil Katz dead at 37
The Associated Press
M I L W A U K E E, April 22 - A man who developed one of the world's most
popular pieces of computer software has died at age 37.
Phillip W. Katz died of complications from chronic alcoholism,
according to the Milwaulkee medical examiner's records.
Katz's file-compression software is used around the world.
"In early days, compression was all done with software because there
was no hardware to do this stuff," said computer science professor Leonard
Levine at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. "So Katz put together a
program called PKZip, the Phil Katz zip program."
The compression software made communication between computers faster
and less expensive.
"His program was instrumental in inexpensive, dependable
communication," Levine said. But, he added, "what I felt was most important
about it is the fact that you can get it for free and not pay for it."
Nearly all program files downloaded from the Internet have the suffix
.zip, meaning they are compressed in the format Katz developed.
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-- KE
"Oh the Places you'll go!" --Dr. Seuss
The Educational CyberPlayGround
<http://www.edu-cyberpg.com>
Diversity University Collaboratory Listserv
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MSNBC.com and USA TODAY HOT SITE PICKS
The crisp and clean playground walks
technophobic teachers and parents through crystal-clear
instructions. Provides teachers, parents, librarians, home
schoolers and regular folks a "webliography" of links to
pertinent topics and subtopics.
With a cool choice of site maps to browse from.
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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 07:48:43 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: MISC> [netsites] World Wide Learn
From: "Airy Zona" <azna...@myrealbox.com>
To: "NetSites" <nets...@egroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 12:49 PM
Subject: [netsites] World Wide Learn
"World Wide Learn is a directory of courses, degrees, training, tutorials
and workshops offered entirely online and available to adult learners
worldwide."
http://www.worldwidelearn.com/
Airy Zona
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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 07:48:48 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: RESOUR> [netsites] U.S. Department of Education (ED) Home Page
From: "Airy Zona" <azna...@myrealbox.com>
To: "NetSites" <nets...@egroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 1:00 PM
Subject: [netsites] U.S. Department of Education (ED) Home Page
"The U.S. Department of Education's (ED) mission is to ensure equal access
to education and to promote educational excellence for all Americans. ED's
web site provides information about the Department's offices, programs,
information and assistance services, funding opportunities, education
statistics, publications, and education initiatives of the President and
Secretary Richard W. Riley."
Airy Zona
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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 07:48:54 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: MISC> [netsites] Lives, the Biography Resource
From: "BC" <acqu...@uswest.net>
To: "NetSites" <nets...@egroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 12:40 PM
Subject: [netsites] Lives, the Biography Resource
"Links to thousands of biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, diaries,
letters, narratives,
oral histories and more. * Individual lives of the famous, the infamous, and
the not so famous.
* Group biographies about people who share a common profession, historical
era
or geography.
* Also general collections, resources on biographical criticism and special
collections."
BC
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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 07:49:00 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: K12> [netsites] KidSource OnLine
From: "Airy Zona" <azna...@myrealbox.com>
To: "NetSites" <nets...@egroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 1:02 PM
Subject: [netsites] KidSource OnLine
"The parent's source for children's healthcare, education, safety, learning
disability, software, and parenting information and discussion"
Airy Zona
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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 07:49:05 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: MISC> [netsites] The Cyberlaw Informer
From: "Airy Zona" <azna...@myrealbox.com>
To: "NetSites" <nets...@egroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 12:55 PM
Subject: [netsites] The Cyberlaw Informer
"The Cyberlaw Informer is a free electronic publication, covering the
development of technology law. The Cyberlaw Informer is delivered weekly to
your email box, thus making it easy for you to keeping up to date with the
fast changes in cyberspace and technology law."
Airy Zona
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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 07:49:10 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: RESOUR> Library of Congress Gets Hip
From: "Carvin, Andy" <aca...@benton.org>
To: <WWW...@LISTS.LIGHTSPAN.COM>
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 1:33 PM
Subject: Library of Congress Gets Hip (fwd)
Reposted with permission from Wired...-ac
Copyright 1994-2000 Wired Digital Inc. All rights reserved.
Library of Congress Gets Hip
by Kendra Mayfield
3:00 a.m. Apr. 27, 2000 PDT
As the Library of Congress celebrates its 200th
birthday this week, virtual visitors can peruse a
wealth of materials online, from maps to
recordings and films.
So where are all the books?
With 4 million electronic transactions every working
day, 3 million primary documents already online
and 2 million more in the pipeline, the world's
largest library is edging closer to its ambitious goal
of digitizing 5 million items by the end of the year.
Yet only a fraction of the library's 119 million
books, photographs, prints, drawings, manuscripts,
maps, recordings, and film are currently in digital form.
"That's a small percentage," admitted librarian
James Billington. "You have to make some choices."
But Billington wants it made clear he is not
opposed to digitizing all of the library's books. It's
just not a priority yet.
In a widely distributed -- and perhaps
misinterpreted -- statement two weeks ago,
Billington was quoted as saying, "We are not
digitizing books. ... The new, multi-medial
electronic library is not replacing our traditional
print library."
Billington amended those comments this week,
saying the library must decide what's most
important to put online first and most useful for a
large, diverse audience.
In fact, the Library of Congress may one day lead
the way in the efforts to digitize books.
"We're not at all opposed to putting books online,"
Billington said. "One technology never completely
replaces another.
"We're trying to serve what are the most crucial
and immediate needs of the public that can be
serviced," he said. "We can't do everything."
Simply meeting the year-end goal of digitizing 5
million items "represents a large challenge,"
agreed John Ober, director of Education and
Applied Research for the California Digital Library.
"They have a large charge to make their resources
available to the public of the United States."
The Library of Congress has made great strides in
digitizing its collections.
The American Memory section features millions of
digitized items in over 70 multimedia collections.
The library celebrated its bicentennial on Monday
by launching a new America's Library website that
directors hope will provide users with as much
access as possible to its collections.
"We hope it will realize one of the earliest
promises of the Internet: to put the Library of
Congress at the fingertips of every boy and girl
where they live," Billington said.
Instead of emphasizing digitizing books, the
America's Library website will focus on little-used,
multimedia materials such as maps, letters,
diaries, films, prints, photographs and recordings.
"The national library of America, like democratic
America itself, adds without subtracting," Billington said.
"We're not just digitizing for a privileged few," he said.
In his speech at the National Press Club two weeks
ago, Billington criticized the lack of positive
commentary on the Internet. "So far, the Internet
seems to be largely amplifying the worst features
of television's preoccupation with sex and violence,
semi-illiterate chatter, shortened attention spans,
and a near-total subservience to commercial
marketing," he said.
He's taking that attitude to extend the library's
reach. Billington is designing the site primarily for
kids and families by providing "positive content
that is free."
"We have aggressively developed a program that
is strongly directed to overcome the gap between
the haves and the have-nots," Billington said.
Whether people will actually read books online
remains a big question.
"Nobody knows yet what size population is willing
to read entire monographs on screen," said the
California Digital Library's Ober.
"They don't know how electronic books will be
used," agreed Edward Barry, president of Oxford
University Press-USA, who is participating in a
five-year study with the University of Pennsylvania
library to examine how people use digital books.
"There's been very little data put together on
usage so far," Barry said. "Most librarians are
going to wait and see what kind of usage there is.
They want to be convinced that digital books have
an advantage over what they're using now."
While paper books will survive, "electronic books
will be in every library in the country," Barry predicts.
"There will be demand," he said. "People will find
out that there are things you can do with digital
books that you can't do with printed books and
there will be room for both."
Copyright 1994-2000 Wired Digital Inc. All rights reserved.
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Andy Carvin
Senior Associate
Benton Foundation
an...@benton.org
http://edweb.gsn.org/andy
http://www.DigitalDivideNetwork.org
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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 07:49:18 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: MISC> Web User Training Needs Assessment Tool Available at No Cost
From: Keeley, Bill [mailto:Kee...@wipp.carlsbad.nm.us]
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 5:17 PM
The U.S. Department of Energy Carlsbad Area Office (DOE/CAO) is now making
the Web User Training Needs Assessment (WUTNA) tool available to educational
institutions, businesses, government agencies, non-profits, consultants,
students, and citizens at no cost to recipients. The purpose of the WUTNA
is to provide institutions and organizations with a systematic means of
identifying and prioritizing the training needs of their Web-using students,
staff, and employees. WUTNA employs a streamlined version of the
Difficulty-Importance-Frequency (DIF) needs assessment model employed by the
U.S. military and nuclear industry. WUTNA covers 57 tasks in 7 areas:
+ Access the Web
+ Find what you need
+ Use multimedia
+ Maintain security
+ Perform online, interactive tasks
+ Perform file tasks
+ Maintain you Web browser
WUTNA is a complete, turnkey package that can be administered without
modification. To obtain WUTNA at no cost, complete an online application at
the website that we operate for DOE/CAO:
We will obtain necessary approvals and send to you a user ID and a password,
allowing you to download WUTNA and any other requested material directly
from the web site.
Bill Keeley
Organizational Development & Research Manager
Westinghouse GSG/WID
Box 2078, GS-213
Carlsbad, NM 88221
kee...@wipp.carlsbad.nm.us
505.234.7594
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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 07:49:24 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: RESOUR> [netsites] The Nine Planets
From: "BC" <acqu...@uswest.net>
To: "NetSites" <nets...@egroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 12:41 PM
Subject: [netsites] The Nine Planets
"The Nine Planets is an overview of the history, mythology, and current
scientific knowledge
of each of the planets and moons in our solar system. Each page has text and
images, some
have sounds and movies, most provide references to additional related
information."
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html
BC
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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 07:49:29 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <gle...@rrnet.com>
Subject: MISC> [netsites] Cookie Central
From: "BC" <acqu...@uswest.net>
To: "NetSites" <nets...@egroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 12:43 PM
Subject: [netsites] Cookie Central
"Comprehensive resource on Internet cookies, including what they are, how to
block or stop them."
BC
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